Motion VS Action

Assalamualaikum w.b.t & hey friends

Currently I am reading Atomic Habits by James Clear. It's almost 50% of the book I have completed. Among the ideas that has been presented so far, I find something interesting (other ideas are good as well) which is motion and action.

In my own understanding, motion is the stage where we plan, strategize and learn whereas action is the stage where we put into practice. Usually, we tend to focus more on the motion instead of action because we scare of critism and failure. In the other word, we are always focusing on the motion stage as a medium to procrastinate failure since only action will have an outcome either success or failure.

Motion does not give any result unless we put it into action. Thus, it is very important to take action rather than being in a safe mode like in motion. By being in motion for a long time, we are deceiving ourselves that we are making progress but the truth is nothing unless there is an action.

For example, I am planning or brainstorming on the topics to write any entry in my blog where I am in motion mode. I can take whatever amount of time to plan and learn any topic to write. But, if I don't take any action to actually write the blog, then there will be no result at all.

The idea here is not to convey that motion mode like planning, strategizing and learning is not crucial, but action must be taken after motion mode then only we will see the result. Thus, after spending some time in the motion mode, then we need to transmute motion into its equivalent action for result.

Tips To Choose Book For Reading

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In this entry, I would like to share some tips which I am using in selecting book which I'm going to read. Recently, my entry is pertaining to book because I am developing myself to be a great reader and bibliophile. Disclaimer : this is my own ways and maybe will not work for yourself . On top of that, whatever I will be listing here is something literally rife tips only and not just newly discovered for humankind civilization 😝. Here we go :

😍 Preferred Genre

Fundamentally, there are many genres of the book which available to us like spirituality, philosophy, comics, art, business etc. From person to person, surely it will be different. For instance, I would prefer something like self help (motivation), psychology, comics (especially english version) whereas my wife predilection is biography. So, choose your preferred genre or else your reading journey will be boring unless you are okay with any genre.

🙎🏻‍♂️ Suggestion

Sometimes, I decided to buy and read a book due to suggestion from someone. This someone can be my friend, notorious person, politician, or youtuber who loves to share about book. There are some books which I bought due to suggestion such as Surrounded by Idiots (suggested by Malaysia politician which I dont't want to mention here), my current reading book ; Atomic Habits (suggested by my favorite, productivity guru aka youtuber) etc. 

📱📕Physical book or ebook

Some people love to hold physical book (also its smell) while reading and the others prefer ebook. For me, I would prefer physical book. It's convenient for me to see my books properly arrange on the bookshelf. But, I also got some of the ebooks also which I bought before. Of course ebook having its advantage like you can read before sleep with light off condition (To those who having more budget would be suggested to buy kindle). But still, I am having more propensity towards physical book. My current practice is I will be reading physical book everyday as my axiomatic daily habit, but I'm also reading a beneficial blog before sleep as a replacement of ebook. To be honest, while reading blog entry with warmer display setting on my iphone will make me much more easier to fall asleep. 

⚜️Language

I am a Malaysian and my mother tongue language is Malay language. But, my preference book is English. Maybe someone would say I am not having affection towards my own language. But, that's not the reason. Actualy, I want to improvise my english level (maybe in other entry in future, I will tell a story regarding my ordeal related to my english proficiency). But, there is a genre which I am totally prefer in my own languange which is spirituality or Islamic religious related.

📖 Thickness

Thickness is another prominent aspect for me in choosing a book to read. Usually, my preference will be around 200~ 300 pages which not too thick and not too thin. It's just nice. It is because the only available time for me to read during my weekday is in the night only. Thus, I will just need a typical book thickness so that it will not take me too long to finish and also not too short to digest.

👨🏻‍💻Author

Generally, this is not the main factor to me, but still can be one of the aspects in choosing the right book. Among the books which I have read so far, I think only one author which I bought most of his book. The rest of my books are mix of authors.

💸Price/budget

Lastly but not least is the price or budget. Previously, I don't have an allocated budget to buy physical books, thus mostly I will buy ebook which cost very cheap price ; RM1. But now, I am having more budget and able to buy more physical books. Usually, I will try to choose a book which cost less than RM50 unless the book really entice me in some ways which make me totally forget about the budget or price, but so far I don't find any 😂. 

So that's all the tips which I am using in selecting my books. But, I am not restraint myself to all these tips also. Some books will fulfill all the tips, some cannot. We live in a world where ideal is not the case. Hopefully this entry will benefit to you. See you in my next entry

Philosophy of Fish

Assalamualaikum w.b.t & hi,

This week, I have been thinking on what topic I should write in my weekly entry in this blog. For your info, one of the habits which I am currently practicing is to write an entry weekly. Seems too easy to commit right ? That's why I am trying with small habit first. It's better we develop a small habit but in a continuous commitment rather than a big habit but in the spasmodic mode and eventually we stop due to not able to commit anymore.

Ok back to the main topic. When I was in secondary school, one of the advises given by my father was to be like a fish. At first, I couldn't get the message but after a snippet explanation, then only I understood.

If we catch a fish from sea, and we want to cook for food, we need to put salt, turmeric powder and others to fry it so that it will be tasty or else it will be tasteless. Of course if tasteless, we will loss appetite unless you are on extreme diet 😜. But, do you notice something? Here's the philosphy of the fish kicks in.

We catch fish from sea (salty environment) but when we want to cook it, we still need to put pinch of salt to make it taste just nice. In the other word, fish never been influenced by its environment even has been living in salty condition.

It same goes to ourselves. We have to be like a fish which never been influnced by the environment whenever we are. Of course to be influenced by good environment is good, but what I mean here is to be influenced by negativity and stray us from good path. We have to develop ourselves so that we won't be easily affected by negative environment like a fish. Hope anyone who read this will be like a fish. It's good to take lessons from our surrounding and makes them our principles (only good ones ya). Stay safe everyone with rising daily covid cases recently in Malaysia.

Toxic Productivity

 Assalamualaikum w.b.t

Everyone is demanding and hoping for a productive and efficient life. Our life is short and that's why we need to make sure whatever we do in our life must be something precious and beneficial to ourselves and others.

Recently, I started to feel like I need to be really efficient and productive with my life. So I searched for how to be productive so on and so forth. I even try to develop and nurture new habits and keep monitoring its progress through a premium habit app (you may refer to my previous post). 

After few weeks I am living with so called a "productive life", I realized that I got something but I lost something. What I mean to say is yes I am being productive in terms of new habits which I am practicing but, I lost big portion of time with my wife.

I'm too obsessed with my new habits and indirectly I have limited precious time with my wife. Now I am thinking that I am just being toxic productive instead of what I am aiming for. I know even my wife is not complaining, but in her heart, she would feel sad with my style on the journey to be productive life .

So my plan now is I will try to improvise my ways to be productive in term of schedule and so on by balancing it and make it right. It's no value if I am being like this toxis productive.

My last words, try to balance ourselves so that we won't be too obsessed with one side productivity while sacrificing the other side which I called it as toxic productivity.  

App Suggestion : Habit tracker

** Disclaimer : I wasn't sponsored by the developer for this entry
 

Assalamualaikum w.b.t & hi,

Everyone wants to be productive & efficient in their life. That's a default human behavior. But, a lot of people fail to do so due to many factors like lazy, procrastinate, and so on

Few weeks back, I found an app from my apps store (sorry I am not so sure for android user, you may check it out if got any) which was Habit tracker by Davetech Co Ltd. This app generally about the habits which we would like to track our daily habits or in a simpler word, our to do list habits.

I have been using it since few weeks back without fail for any single day and I found it very interesting. The app very minimalist with attractive decoration, user friendly & fun.

For myself, I bought a premium version which costs me just RM19.90 for one life time payment. The reason I bought the premium one because it's literally cheap and also I want to make sure that I will regularly use it since it costs me money (even not too expensive). We know that whenever we need to pay for something, then we will fully utilize it so that we won't waste our money for nothing. That's me and I believe other people also like that.

Overall rating I can say that it worth for 4.8 out of 5 . Thus, those who seek a productive, effective life, I would suggest you get one with premium version so that you will have habit tracker to follow and obey. Any apple user, you may use below link to download the app. But, for android user, I am sorry again as I don't have any android device anymore in my house, but still I believe this app should be available to be downloaded. 

Habit, Track link for apple user: https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1438388363?pt=75160805&ct=sharelink&mt=8

To-Do List

Assalamualaikum w.b.t & Hi,

Everyone wants to be organized. However, not everyone might do so due to improper planning. Sometimes, due to unorganized, people tend to be mess up and feel nothing. So, what is the tip to be organized?

One tip that I would suggest is proper planning and prioritize your schedule. If you fail to plan, your plan is to fail. I see many people that they fail to organize their life in term of schedule either in work or study. They don't know what to do and what to prioritize.

For me, whenever I am not plan properly for tomorrow schedule, then I will be mess up and I feel no accomplishment on that day. However, when I started to plan what to do and to prioritize, I felt so relief when I went back to home since I accomplished something in my job life.

So how to plan and prioritize? Perform to-do list. To-do list is a list that we wanna do later. So, in this list, usually people will list and prioritize items. Whenever the items have been done, they will mark the lists.

You may write in books or download apps from your. Like mine, I downloaded app. It is easy to do. As we all known, we will always use phone in our daily life. That's why I use my phone to plan my life. Remember, proper plan your schedule and work for it base on prioritization.   

  

2 Principles

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How are you ? Hopefully, totally fine. Today, I would like to share 2 crucial principles in our life. The principles that I will be conveying in this entry is the fundamental or base as we want to make self-improvement related to dreams, wills and so on.


The 1st principle is the usage of both side of brain (left and right). For instance, many people assume that an engineer (can be other profession also) only needs to optimize the usage of left brain (related to calculation etc) instead of right brain (writings, facts, arts etc). For me, this assumption is not fully correct. Even you are an engineer, you also need to optimize the power in yourself with the usage of both side of brain. In the other word, an engineer need to balance in the middle between right and left brain usage. One of the tips to train yourself is to perform a task related to calculation on a blank paper**.


The 2nd principle is humble. The longer time we are in a certain field, the more humble we will be. Sometimes, this one is too hard to be practiced. For example, as an engineer, it doesn't mean we cannot accept any opinion from subordinates (technicians, operators) right?

It doesn't matter what field we are involving, but please make sure we nurture these 2 principles in our heart & brain. For your information, we only use 10% of our brain ability. Thus, optimize the usage of the brain and always being humble. Do you think a professor can't be corrected by his/her students whenever he/she did an unintentionally mistake? We are only human being and always make mistake.



**calculation will use right brain, an imaginary line during writing on blank paper will use left brain